People

: John Chatfield Page; Head engineer for the construction of the Highline Canal in Mesa County, Colorado. He was descended from a a line of New England whaling captains, but was born and raised in Nebraska. In 1908, he graduated from the University of Nebraska as a civil engineer and came to Mesa County, Colorado in 1909. After buying land at 28 1/2 and C Road, he grew peaches and apples on 40 acres. He began working on the Grand Valley Project for the Bureau of Reclamation in 1911, as a typographer and in locating reclamation canals. In 1925, he was named project superintendent and got an office in what later became the Aspinall building on 4th Street and Rood Avenue in Grand Junction. In 1930, he was named the office engineer for the construction of the Hoover Dam. He also directed the construction of several other dams, including the Grand Coulee. He became the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation in 1937 and kept the position until 1943, when his failing health caused him to resign. He was a member of the Grand Junction Lions Club, a Shriner, a member of the Grand Junction City Council, and a Mason. He was involved in the construction of the YMCA building, which stood where the Alpine Bank building now sits. Page, Arizona near Lake Powell is named after him. *Photograph from original photograph by the Department of the Interior: "Officials of Bureau and Six Cos., Inc., with first Assistant Secretary of the Interior Theodore F. Walters at Boulder City."

: John Commerce Bowden; Contributor to "Singing the lines of place: A Gunnison Valley Journal," (source: Singing the lines of place: A Gunnison Valley Journal)

: John Cope; Contributor to "Singing the lines of place: A Gunnison Valley Journal," Retired Teacher. (source: Singing the lines of place: A Gunnison Valley Journal)

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